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Smith is trying to see “how closely to contemporaneousness a finished book might be able to be in the world,” as she told one interviewer.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018

"Satin Island" also owes something to the dot-com-era work novel; an air of catastrophic contemporaneousness hangs over the proceedings as U. is sustained by and trapped in a system he knows cannot possibly last.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015

Alexander Eliot Venice, Calif. Every artwork created in the past possesses a dual aspect: its contemporaneousness when created and its saturation with time as it survives through the ages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Could she possibly marry this boy whom her sentimental contemporaneousness with his father naturally seemed to relegate to a generation younger than herself?

From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin

Eminent contemporaneousness may see here how much space will be allotted to it in the historical compends and biographical dictionaries of the next generation.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell